perhaps it also has something to do with surface preference. generally you find firm courses here, while euro tracks like to keep theirs soft-even watering them to keep them so. besides, euros ship a lot-england to ireland to france, germany, etc. with airlines, coming here isn't really that big of a deal, anymore so than shipping from cali to new york and back.
big money is big money. we've got a lot of races with nice purses over here. you can ship in and race around the country til fall and the bc, and then go back.
also, when reading an article in bloodhorse yesterday, i guess it can be difficult to find racing for some horses-3 yo's for instance staying in their age range before fall. the writer said they could use a race along the lines of the travers over there.
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